Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bitten by Democratic attacks characterizing the G.O.P.'s tax-cut package as a huge giveaway to the rich, nearly half the House's 230 Republicans petitioned their leadership to scale back the scope of the breaks. The dissidentsasked that the plan's $500-a-child annual tax credit be limited to families earning up to $95,000, down from the $200,000 proposed...
...early April, when his overall package of spending and tax cuts is on the table. Already, a small group of moderate Republicans has met several times with conservative Democrats to discuss how to link any future tax cuts to deficit reduction. Even if G.O.P. moderates succeed in reducing the scope of the $500-per-child tax credit, an enormous tax break for the wealthy would still loom. Democrats charge that more than 50% of the remaining $85 billion in tax benefits in the contract would still go to the 10% of families whose incomes exceed $100,000. The Joint Committee...
...same time, however, the collapse of the Soviet empire, the creation of new states and the breakup of others have triggered an explosion of ethnic conflicts, with racial and religious hatreds mixed in, giving fresh scope to terrorist free-lancers. Much of the violence committed today in the name of Islam is the work of small, loosely organized cells who emerge for little more than a single act of random vengeance. Sections of Pakistan are ungovernable safe havens for the remnants of 20,000 zealous volunteers from Muslim countries all over the world who went to join the Afghan mujahedin...
...revoke driving and professional licenses for nonpayment and apply property liens across state lines. At week's end Florida rounded up several hundred suspected deadbeats in a dramatic sweep. Though state and federal collection efforts, including a program to confiscate federal tax refunds, have had some success, the scope of the scofflaws' damage is still vast--they owe a cumulative $34 billion to 17 million children...
...Most of all I'd like to emphasize...the commitment of the institution to the utmost degree in scope to need-blind admissions, need-based aid and open doors," Rudenstine said in an interview yesterday. "I think we're on exactly the right course, and we expect to stay on the course...